Apparatus for compression and condensation



I R. .SUCZEK. APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSION AND CONDENSATION.

APPLICATION PILED JAN. 17, I919.

Patented Mar. 15- 1921.

STEAM.

All/7 I J a v 6 0M BY M 154 ATTORNEY.

UNITED s'r-arss PATENT OFFICE.

3031mm sucznx, orrgruAJmLrnIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR To 0. 1:. WHEELER,

MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORA- T1011 01 PENNSYLVAN AJPPABA'IUS FOB. comraEs'sIoN AND coNnEN'sA'rroN.

Specification of Letters Patent. 'Pat nt d 1 15 1921.

Applicationfiled January 17, 1919. Serial No. 271,621.

To all whom it may concern:

* Be it known that 1, ROBERT SUCZEK, a citizen of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Apparatus for Compression and Condensation, of which the following is a speclfication.

My invention relates to apparatus for condensing fluid, as vsteam, and removmg uncondensable fluid, as air, which may be contained in or in association with the condensable fluid before or after its condensation.

My invention resides in condensing apparatus of any suitable type, more particularly a jet condenser, with which is associated air removing apparatuscomprising an ejector which discharges through a passage or passages within which the con- (lensable fluid from the mixture of the ejector is condensed and the uncondensed fluid cooled by extraction of heat from the walls of said passage or passages by cooling me dium, as water, which is preferably that which has theiretofore efi'ected condensation of steam in the condenser. With such ap- JaratuS may be associated a pump for urther raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid from the ejector, said pump be ing of any suitable type and is preferably another ejector.

My invention resides in the method and apparatus hereinafter described.

For an illustration of one ofthe various forms my invention ma take, and for an illustration of a mode of practising my invention, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, which is a vertical sectional yiew, partly in elevation, through a jet condenser having associated therewith air'removing apparatus. V

Referring to the drawing, J- is the or shell of a condenser of any suitable type, here. illustrated byway of example as a jet condenser. I The fluid to be condensed, as steam-exhausted from a steam turbine, en-

gine or "any other source, is delivered-into the top of'ithe condenser through the opening-'A. -The cooling medium, as water, is

admitted through the opening W into the annular Water box or distributing chamber (1, from which it is delivered through the nozzles or openings N arranged in a cir- 'cular serles 1n the wall of the condenser shell or body. Beneath the nozzles or apertures N isthe cone or diffuser member D..

Within thebody or shell J, or otherwise suitably related therewith, is disposed a centrifugal removal pump P, whose impeller I remains submerged beneath the water collected in the bottom of the body J. The impeller I is secured upon and rotated by the 'shaft S extending through the shell J through'the stufiing boxes a, a and driven externally by any suitable means, as an electr1c motor orsteam turbine, not shown. The impeller I delivers into the pump discharge casing b, which communicates with the exterior of the condenser.

At a suitable point, as 0, above the variable level 03 of the water collected in the shell J, and preferably at a point above the lower end of the cone or diffuser D, a fluid connection with the interior of the shell J is provided and connecting with the valve 6 which delivers to the suction chamber of an ejector E of any Suitable type, here indicated as a downwardly directed tubular ejectorwhose difluser delivers into the pipe ,f. Motive fluid, as live or exhaust steam, is delivered to the nozzle structure of the ejector E through the pipe 9 controlled by the valve 'h. The pipe or fluid connection communicates at its lower end 'with the chamber a, separated b partition 7' from the second chamber is, c ambers i and k being separate compartments within the box or chest BL Connecting the chambers or compartments or k are the tubes Z, of any suitable material, preferably of good heat conductivity, such as cop er, brass, etc. These tubes in the example illustrated have their ends in the tube sheet or plate m which in eflect'forms part of the wall of the shell J, and extend j horizontally ining therebyjfsubmerged within the water collected in; :the condenser shell The tubes Z are preferably'located as Sir a distance below the ejector E as is consistent with their being '.a ways completely or suflil ci'ently submgrged in the water within the shell J-an'd, as indicated,"are accordingly rod preferably as low as the uppermost part of.

the pump impeller I, which is also always kept completely filled or submerged. The

chamber is communicates through a fluid connection, as n, with a pump E of any suitable type, as a reciprocating, rotary, entrainment or other type, but is preferably -a'second ejector, which further raises the pressure of the fluid,.as air, which is not condensed in the tubes Z. The ejector E may be of any suitable type, but is here in-- .dicated as of a type producing a diskshaped jet received into a surrounding annular diffuser, the motive fluid or steam though preferably of the type appearing in.

the' second stage, Fig. 8 of said Letters Patent.

The discharge from the ejector E is at 0, which may'deliver directly into the atmosphere or into any inclosure or region at any suitable or desired pressure.

Communicating with preferably the lowest point in the-chamber k is the pipe ,0 which descends, to form a U-tube water seal,

and then ascends and delivers at g into theinterior of the condenser shell J.

The mode of operation is as follows:

Steam entering at A and generally containing some uncondensable vapor and air, comes into contact with the jets of injection waterissuing from thenozzles or'apertu'res N'and is condensed thereby, the condensate and injection water fallingthrough the member D and collecting in the bottom of the shell J, as well understood in connec- .tion with jet condensers. There is carried with the mixture through the member D.un-

' condensed vapors and air which may be contained in the entering steam, so that within the shell J and above the water level- 03 thereinthere will exist. uncondensable vapors and air, sometimes increased 'b lea kage ofiair into said: space. In order t at the usual vacuum in the condenser. may be produced-and maintained, as Well understood in'connection with steam turbines and condensing engines, the uncondensable fluid must be removed from within the condenser,

and this is accomplished by theejector E,

or the ejector E and the pump or ejector EK' Steam or othersuitable motive fluid is. deiivered-to the ejector E-in well known man ner, and'thesame is expanded in a nozzle ornozzles which produces a jet or'jets entraining the air entering the suction 'chamber of the ejector E through-the opening into the/fluid passage 7' which delivers it into the chamber i," from which it passes through the tubes Z, in which the condensable fluid is condensed, and the condensate and uncondensable fluid, including air, is delivered into the chamber is, in which the condensate separates from the air, the con.- densate passing ofl through the pipe 12, to and. through the water seal therein, and is delivered at 9 into the body of water-within the shell J The uncondensed fluid including air in the chamber is, may now be delivered to any suitable point, and if at or above atmospheric pressure may be delivered directly into the atmosphere... But ordinarily, particularly where a high vacuum is to be maintained Within the condenser, the

' pressure of the uncondensable fluid including airabove the water in the shell J is in the neighborhood of. 28 or 29 inches of vacuum, as referred to the 30 inch mercury barometer. In such case the use of additional compressing means as pump or ejector E is desirable, and the vacuum in the com partment is may be, for example, 20 inches. I

Todeliver the uncondensed fluid or air" from compartment is to atmospheric pressure, it is further acted upon by the pump-or second ejector E which then delivers the air or uncondensed fluid at 0 directly into the atosphere or into any inclosure or region 1 at atmospheric or some other pressure.-

Thecondensing water, after having operated upon steam, may operate to condense the fluid from the ejector E after the water has been removed from the condenser by the pump P. Thus it will readily be understoodthat the tubes Z may be disposed in the path of the water removed and discharged by the pump P from the interior of the shell J.

It will be understood alsothat the tubes I Z may be disposed in the incoming injection water delivered to the chamber C, but such mode of operation, and structure therefor, is not herein claimed,'but is claimed in 'my ap lication Serial Number 271622.

hat I claim is: l, The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of anejector, and a condenser receiving the discharge therefrom disposed in said. chamber and cooled by said medium.

2. The combination With a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a plurality of tubes ment, and a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said chamber into the cooling medium therein.

The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge therefrom, a second compartment, a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said chamber into the cooling medium therein, and a fluid connection from said second compartment communicating with the interior of said condenser.

5 The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge therefrom, a second compartment, a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said chamber into the cooling medium therein, and a connection for delivering condensate from said second compartment into said chamber.

6. The combination with a condenser, of an ejector, a condenser receiving the discharge from said ejector, means for subject ing both said condensers to the same cooling medium, and a pump for raising the pres-- sure of the uncondensed fluid from said sec-v ond named condenser.

7. The comblnation with a condenser, 01': an e ector, a .condenser receiving the discharge from said ejector, means for subjecti ng both said condensers to the same cooling medium, and a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid delivered from-said second named condenser.

8. The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a condenser recelving the discharge therefrom disposed in said chamber and cooled by said medium, and a pump furtheri raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid from said second named condenser.

9. The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a condenser receiving the discharge therefrom disposed in said chamber and cooled by said medium, and a second ejector raising. the pressure of the uncondensed fluid delivered by said second named condenser.

-10. The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling ;medium, of an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge therefrom, a second compartment, a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said chamber into the cooling medium therein, and a pump for raising the pressure of uncondensed fluid in said second compartment.

11. The combination with a condenser comprising a. chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a compartment remedium, of an ejector, a compartment re-- ceiving discharge therefrom, a second compartment, a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said. chamber into the cooling medium therein, a fl'uid connection from said second compartment communicating with the interior or said condenser, and a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid in said second compartment.

13. The combination with a condenser comprising a chamber receiving the cooling medium, of an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge therefrom, a second compartment, a plurality of tubes connecting said compartments and projecting into said chamber into the cooling medium therein, a-

connection for delivering condensate from said second compartment into said chamber.

and a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid in said second compartment.

14. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, and a surface condenser Within said jet condenser receiving discharge from said ejector. and subjected to the mixture of cooling medium and condensate from said jet' condenser.

15. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a condenser within said jet condenser receiving discharge from said ejectorand subjected to the mixture of cooling medium and condensate'from said jet condenser, and a pump further raising the pressure ofthe uncondensed fluid from said second named condenser.

16.- The combination with a jet condenser. of anejector, a condenser within said jet condenser receiving discharge from said ejector and subjected to the mixture of cooling medium and condensate from said jet condenser, and a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid from said second named condenser.

17. The combination with a jet condenser. of an ejector, condenser structure receiving discharge from said ejector projecting into the interior of said jet condenser and subjected to the Water therein- 18. The combination with a jet condenser,

of an ejector, condenser structure receiving discharge from said e ector...pro e,ct1ng into 'the interior of said jet condenser and subdischarge from said ejector and projecting into the interior of said jet condenser 1n contact with the water collected therein, and a pump for raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid and said tubular structure.

21. The combination with a jet condenser.

of an ejector, and a plurality of tubes whose length is great as compared with their cross section. receiving discharge from said ejector and projecting into the interior of said jet condenser.

22. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a plurality of tubes whose length is great as compared with their cross section receiving discharge from said ejec tor and projecting into the interior of said jet condenser in contact with the water collected therein, and a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid re ceived from said tubes.

23. The combination with a jet condenser, ofan ejector, a compartment receiving discharge from said ejector, a second compare ment, and tubes connecting said compartments projecting into the interior of said jet condenser.

24. The combination with a jet condenser, of-an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge from said ejector, a second compartment, tubes connecting said compartments projecting into the interior of said jet condenser in contact with the water collected. therein, and a secondejector raising, the

pressure of the uncondensed fluid in said second compartment. j

25. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a compartment receiving discharge from said ejector, a second compartoment, tubes connecting said compartments projecting into the interior of sand jet condenser in contact with the, water collected therein, a second ejector raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid in said second compartment,and a connection for delivering condensate from said second compartment into said jet condenser.

26. Thecombination with a condenser, of an ejector, a tube sheet constituting a .portion of the shell of said condenser, a compart' ment having said tube sheet as a wall thereof, a connection between the discharge of said ejector and said com artment, tubes communicating with sai compartment through said-tube sheet and projecting into the shell of said condenser, and -a second compartment into which said tubes deliver. ""27. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a tube sheet constituting a porthrough said tube sheet and projecting into the shell of said jet condenser, a second compartment into which said 1 tubes deliver through said tube sheet, and a condensate,-

connection, from said second compartment into the interior of said jet condenser.

28. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a tube sheet constituting a portion of the shell of-saidjet condenser, a compartment having said tube sheet as a wall thereof, a connection between the discharge of said ejector and said compartment, tubes communicating with said compartment through said tube sheet and projecting into the shell of said jet condenser, a second compartment into which said tubes deliver and a pump for raising the pressure of the uncondensed fluid received in said second compartment. s

29. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector, a tube sheet constituting a portionof the shell of said jet condenser, a compartment having said tube sheet as a wall thereof, a connection between the discharge of said ejector and said compartment, tubes communicating with said compartment through said tube sheet and projecting into the shell of said.jet condenser, a second compartment into which said tubes deliver through said tube sheet, a condensateconnectionfrom said second compartmentinto the interior of, said jet condenser, and a pump for raising the pressure of .the'uncondensed fluid received in said second compartment.

30. The combination with a jet condenser, a centrifugal pump within said condenser below the normal level of liquid in said condenser, a surface condenser. projecting into said j et condenser at a point below the normal. level of liquid in'said jet condenser, an

ejector connected to said jet condenser above the level of liquid therein, and a connection receivin the discharge therefrom disposed in said rst named condenser and cooled by V the cooling medium thereof.

33. The combination with a jet condenser, of an ejector mounted thereon, anda condenser receiving the discharge therefrom disposed in said first named condenser and cooled by the cooling medium thereof.

34. The combination with a condenser, of

unedium .thereof.

35.'The combination with a jet condenser. of a plurality of ejectors mounted upon said condenser, and a surface condenser interstage with said ejectors disposed in said jet condenser and cooled by the cooling medium thereof.

36. The combination with a main condenser, of an ejector, and a second condenser receiving the discharge from said ejector and having its heat transfer structure disposed within said m'ain condenser.

37. The combination with a main condenser, of a second condenser having its heat transfer structure disposed within said iuain condenser and subjected to the cooling medium thereof.

38. The combination with a main condenser, of a pump for raising the pressure of elastlc fluid, and a second condenser dis- ROBERT SUCZEK.

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